“JEE-Main 2024: 56 Candidates Achieve Perfect Score, But 39 Debarred for Unfair Means”

On Wednesday, the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced that 56 candidates had achieved a perfect score of 100 in the engineering entrance exam JEE-Main. The maximum number of perfect scores were from Telangana. However, 39 candidates were debarred from taking JEE-Main for three years for using unfair means during the exam. Over 10 lakh candidates had appeared for the second edition of the exam. Among the candidates who scored a perfect NTA score of 100, 15 were from Telangana, 7 each from Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra, and 6 from Delhi. According to a senior NTA official, the NTA score is not the same as the percentage of marks obtained. NTA scores are normalised scores across multi-session papers and are based on the relative performance of all those who appeared for the examination in one session. The marks obtained are converted into a scale ranging from 100 to 0 for each session of examinees. The examination was held in various languages including Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. It was also conducted outside India in various countries, including Manama, Doha, Dubai, Kathmandu, Muscat, Riyadh, Sharjah, Singapore, Kuwait City, Kuala Lumpur, Lagos/Abuja, Colombo, Jakarta, Moscow, Ottawa, Port Louis, Bangkok, Washington D.C., Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, and Oslo. The first edition of the exam was conducted in January-February, and the second edition was conducted in April. Based on the results of JEE-Mains Paper 1 and Paper 2, the candidates have been shortlisted to appear for the JEE-Advanced exam, which is the one-stop exam to get admission into the 23 premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).